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US-CERT: Beware of airline ticket e-mail scam
Posted on December 16th, 2008 at 6:40 amThe United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued an alert for an e-mail scam targeting holiday travelers, warning that malware authors are using clever social engineering tactics to hijack Windows computers.
In the e-mail scam, users get a .zip file attached to a message about an airline ticket and an ominous mention of a credit card balance. It appears to come from legitimate major airlines including Delta, JetBlue, Continental, American Airlines and Virgin America.
And this pops up right before a planned road trip for me, thank goodness I don’t use windows computers but for those who do you might want to check out the rest of this article, Baldy
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